A potted history of Medsin

1950s-1970s

IFMSA 1951
  • IFMSA is formed
  • British Medical Students Association is founding member
  • First IFMSA GA in London
  • Rex Crossley from UK is first president of IFMSA
  • 1954-5 Alan Gilmour, UK is president of IFMSA
  • 1957-8 Bernard Hill, UK is IFMSA Standing Committee Director for Population
  • 1959-60 Graham Lister, UK is president of IFMSA (and several other UK officials).
  • 1960 Exchange Officers Meeting in Edinburgh
  • 1969 Geoffrey Lloyd and Bob Graham President and Vice-President of IFMSA
  • 1970 General Secretariat of IFMSA moved to London
  • 1970 President, Sec Gen and Treasurer all from UK
  • 1971-1973 ? BMSA dissolves
  • 1973 British Medics Working Party attends IFMSA meeting as observers

1980s

  • Nothing known of UK involvement in IFMSA
  • IFMSA struggles to survive…

1990s

  • 1991 UK has a member of IFMSA - National Association of Medical Students (NAMS) International Officer reports to IFMSA that UK cannot offer exchanges
  • 1991 International Officer – Rob Hadden, Oxford
  • 1993-1994 Wigs Bateman attends IFMSA Conference in Alexandria, Egypt and decides we should be involved…
  • 1993-1994 Jess Westall, Tim Baker, Rachel Lindley and Wigs start a few local projects in Sheffield
  • 1993-1994 Medact and Mike Rowson also developing student groups – UCL and Georges
  • 1993-1994 Nottingham set up exchanges
  • 1995 IFMSA has an official from the UK - Liaison Officer to WHO Nick Shenker

1996-97

Sheffield, Georges, UCL and Nottingham students get together…

Logo 1996

…MedSIN (Medical Students International Network) was born

1997-98

MM1997
  • MM97 in Slovenia
  • AM98 in Egypt (pictured left)
  • Became a candidate member of IFMSA at AM97 in Athens
  • First president Wigs Bateman (Sheffield)

1999

  • Small national conference at UCL
  • UK Gained Full Membership of IFMSA at AM99 in Mexico
  • Committee Co-ordinators Arti Maini (Georges) and Rachel Lindley (Sheffield) Secretary – Tim Baker (Sheffield) – Pete (current national committee)’s older brother!

1999-2000

  • National Conference in Sheffield Committee: Coordinators: Vic Wykes (UCL) and Mike Moneypenny (Dundee) Treasurer: Chris Hopkins (UCL) News: Andy Khodakabus (Liverpool)
  • IFMSA Training Support Division Director is Zana Khan from UK
  • Jubilee 2000 campaign: Global chain reaction. Sarah Finer
  • MM2000 in Finland
  • AM2000 in Portugal
Jubilee 2000
MM2000
MM2000

2000-2001

AM2001
  • First big national conference in Edinburgh (>300 people)
  • Chris Hopkins coordinator
  • MedSIN grows – 18 Member Branches
  • MM01 in Malta
  • AM01 in Denmark – wrote MedSIN Action plan for restructure

2001-2002

  • National Conference in Cambridge
  • First full national committee elected
  • MY PLESHA 2 – Sexpression conference
  • First big project conference
  • Homed National Conference
  • Training Conference in Manchester
  • Marrow started
  • MM02 in Yugoslavia
  • AM02 in Taiwan
National Conference 2001
MY PLESHA 2
MM2002
AM2002

2002-2003

  • New committee elected
  • Birmingham National Conference
  • Cardiff International Health Conference
  • Medsin-BMA Joint Training Day
  • MM2003 in Estonia
  • AM 2003 in The Netherlands – Emily Spry (Georges) elected president IFMSA
MM2003
AM2003
IFMSA Presidential Handover

2003-2004

  • New committee elected
  • Medsin formalised with Constitution and Bylaws
  • First Medsin-UK General Assembly
  • New Logo
  • Name altered (Medsin-UK, opening up to non- medical students)
  • Nottingham National conference
  • London GH Conference
  • MM04 in Venezuela
  • AM04 in Macedonia
AM2004
MM2004
MM2004

2004-2005

  • New committee elected
  • Branch Resource Pack
  • New Website
  • Logo made legal (grey cross!)
  • First UK TNT (Training New Trainers)
  • Glasgow National Conference
  • Peninsula GH Conference
  • MM05 Turkey
  • AM05 in Egypt
  • Teddy Bear Hospital first started in UK at Bart's
New BRP
New website
UK TNT 2005
MM2005
AM2005
IFMSA Officials 2005
New logo

2005-2006

  • New committee elected
  • Medsin-UK gets charity status
  • Leeds National Conference
  • London GH Conference
  • Leicester hosts IFMSA European Regional Meeting
  • MM06 - Chile
  • AM06 - Serbia - Won the bid to host UK AM07!
MM2006
TNT 2006
AM2006
IFMSA Officials 2006

2006-2007

MM2007
NC 2006-07
ukAM girls

2006-2007

  • [New committee elected]
  • Bristol National Conference
  • Newcastle GH Conference
  • MM07 - Australia
  • AM07 - UK Medsin hosts the August meeting of the IFMSA - an August never to forget!!

2007-2008

  • [New committee elected]
  • Dundee National Conference
  • Oxford GH Conference
  • MM08 - Mexico
  • AM08 - Jamaica

2008-2009

National Committee 2008-2009
  • President - Helen Preston
  • Vice-President for Branches - Erica Pool
  • Vice-President for Projects - Mark Prince
  • Vice-President for External Affairs - Vanessa Jessop
  • Secretary - Gabriella Bidwell
  • Treasurer - Mori Mansouri
  • Communications and Technology Director - Matt Brandwood
  • Publicity Director - Kiri Dyer
  • Campaigns Director - Jonny Currie
  • Training Director - Sarah Phipps

Last updated on Friday 11 September 2009 at 20:15.